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Fredrick Friday John and Nobuhle Ndimande-Hlongwa
contextualisation theory and Jacob Mey’s Pragmatic Acts. Three discourse features triggered impoliteness in political banter: control, affiliation, and status moderation. Attempts to gain territorial and cross-territorial control caused … strategies, namely, debunking, substantiating, and contrasting positions, were bidirectionally used by sociopolitical actors in political banters. The study concludes that political banters in Nigeria are a sequence of attacking, defensive